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CCNY President to lead dialogue on future of mass transit in US Dr. Robert E. Paaswell, Interim President of The City College of New York (CCNY) and an internationally recognized transportation expert, will join award-winning executive producer Kathleen Hughes and Aaron Woolf, director of PBS’s “Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City,” for a panel discussion at the New York screening of the eye-opening documentary, Monday, June 14 at CCNY. Hosted by CCNY’s Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, both the film and subsequent discussion will be held in Shepard Hall, room 95, from 6 p.m. to 9 p

David Willinger’s “Lunatics, Lovers and Actors” Shot on Campus with Many Students in Cast Dr. David Willinger, stage director, playwright and Professor in the Department of Theatre and Speech at The City College of New York (CCNY), is making his cinematic directorial debut. His first film, “Lunatics, Lovers and Actors,” will make its world premiere Tuesday, June 22, at the New Hope Film Festival in New Hope, PA. The film was shot on location at CCNY and in adjoining St. Nicholas Park. Many CCNY students have roles in the production. The film is a socio-political satire about an imaginative

Rangel Center at CCNY Helped Prepare Students for Public Service Fourteen students, some already in public service, are the first recipients of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) new Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA), designed to inspire and prepare City College students for leadership positions in public service. All Rangel Scholars, the graduates completed the two-year program in CCNY’s Public Service Management Program (PSM) with support from The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service. Based at CCNY, the Rangel Center provides scholarships and paid internships, in

First Student to Receive Full Scholarship to Famed Summer Program in France Helen Levin, a graduating fifth-year architecture student in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been awarded the AIA Fontainebleau Prize. The prize provides a full scholarship to the summer program for architects at the Fontainebleau Schools held in Chateau Fontainebleau, south of Paris. A second graduating fifth-year architecture student at CCNY, Shengyi Pu, won a partial scholarship to attend Fontainebleau. The awards are given by the Center for

Hajoe Moderegger, associate professor of electronic design & multimedia in The City College of New York (CCNY) art department, has been named a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. He will share the fellowship with his artist wife, Franziska Lamprecht, with whom he collaborates under the name “eteam.” Guggenheim Fellowships support men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Professor Moderegger and Ms. Lamprecht are among 180 artists, scientists and scholars named Fellows this year

Issue of ‘Camino Real’ Devoted to Dominicans in the U.S. At the invitation of the Instituto Franklin of the University of Alcalá, Spain, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) will produce a special issue of its prestigious journal, “Camino Real,” devoted to multidisciplinary monographs on Dominicans in the United States. CUNY DSI Director Dr. Ramona Hernández and Associate Director Anthony Stevens-Acevedo will edit the edition and conduct a national call for papers. This is the first such agreement between the CUNY DSI, which is housed at The City College of New York, and Instituto

Techniques That Improve Seeing Through Water Could Apply to Trident Submarine Navigation Dr. Robert R. Alfano, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), will address a gathering of U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. Navy) researchers and officials meeting Wednesday, May 26, at Lockheed-Martin offices in Garden City, NY. He will discuss the potential application of his work in ultrafast propagation of light through dielectric media and seeing through scattering and absorption walls to improve underwater navigation systems for the U.S. Navy

Feng Miao, a PhD candidate in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), has won the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York’s (ITS-NY) 2010 Student Award. She will attend ITS-NY’s 17th Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition, June 10-11, in Saratoga Springs, to receive her award. Her winning paper, "Application of WIM Technology to Evaluate the Safety of Highway Bridges," describes how site-specific truck weight and traffic data collected using weight-in-motion (WIM) systems can be used to evaluate the safety of bridges in New York State. “Recent

Bronx Resident to Attend SUNY Downstate in Fall Maurice Selby, a senior at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been awarded the 2010 Jonas E. Salk Scholarship to study medicine. He is among eight CUNY students to receive the prestigious scholarship, which was presented in a ceremony May 12 at Baruch College. Mr. Selby, a Bronx resident originally from Staten Island, will receive an $8,000 stipend to assist with medical school. The prestigious Salk Scholarships are awarded to students chosen by a panel of distinguished physicians for their outstanding academic records, quality of their

‘A Place Out of Time’ Tells of Last all-Black Public Boarding School in North From 1866 to 1955, the Bordentown School in Bordentown, NJ, was an educational utopia for African-Americans, who were largely disenfranchised by the American education system. Known as “The Tuskegee of the North,” the school was an incubator of black pride and intellect where generations of children learned values, discipline and life skills. More than half a century after its closing, David Davidson, Professor in the MCA Department and Director of the MFA in Media Arts Production, recounts the story of this unique